Anyone live in a university dorm?

musicismylife78

i lived in the dorms in 2004, and back then my university didnt allow students to download on their computers, even in their own dormroom. i was using torrent back then, and was told if i continued they'd pull my internet connection. i complied. until about 3 days before school ended. those 3 nights i had my computer on 24 hours a day downloading anything i could find. after all what could they do? Take my internet connection away for the last night?

so for those who still live in a university dorm, can you download?

Pap

Nope. Same policy here in United Kingdom. In fact, you can get arrested if you download illegal softwares. It's my first year here in UK (master degree) and I can't even download the computer programmes which we are taught inside the classroom - you know, in order to practice a little bit more. Instead, I must go to the labs if I want to practice. Even if it's 4 Celsius degrees outside. And I'm from Greece (25 Celsius degrees right now!) man! Give me a break! :x :evil:

samjam

I can download stuff here at University of Maryland

dcfaithful

I never knew that. Why is (was) downloading prohibited? I imagine you're using your own machines only on their connection, right?

Pap

dcfaithful wrote:

I never knew that. Why is (was) downloading prohibited? I imagine you're using your own machines only on their connection, right?

Yep!... That's right my friend!... If I buy another internet connection, I can download whatever and whenever I want. But it's too expensive. And besides that, why should I do such a foolish thing, when my uni offers me access to internet for free (or so I want to believe, because probably I have already paid for this, through my tuition fees or my residence installments)?...

Get_Right

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

81

Get_Right wrote:

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

81

Back when i was in school, the internet was just getting started. you could download all the porn you wanted, as long as you wanted pictures.

dcfaithful

Interesting article I thought I'd post here...seemed a little appropriate given the topic:

Officer Gene Simmons to the rescue. :roll:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/gene_simmons_fires_back_at_hackers.html

Kiss star Gene Simmons has reacted to hacker attacks on his websites by threatening those responsible with FBI action, jail and homosexual rape.

Simmons recently made headlines at a TV industry conference by saying the record industry had been too soft on those engaged in illegal downloading, stating that his position was: “Make sure there are no incursions. Sue everybody. Be litigious. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line.”


Members of an online community known as the Bureaucracy responded by launching a denial-of-service attack on GeneSimmons.com and SimmonsRecords.com – a method whereby a site’s servers are sent so many requests for web pages that they can’t cope, which results in the site becoming unavailable.

Although most people couldn’t see his message, Simmons reacted with a threat-laced statement: “Our legal team and the FBI have been on the case and we have found a few, shall we say, ‘adventurous’ young people, who feel they are above the law.

“And, as stated in my recent speech, we will sue their pants off. First they will be punished. Second, they might find their little butts in jail, right next to someone who’s been there for years and is looking for a new girlfriend.

“We will soon be printing their names and pictures. We will find you. You cannot hide.”

However, he later updated the page to say: “We’ve been told by government people to take down our previous post, so they can do what they do best: find out who you are and where you are. Stay tuned.”

The Bureaucracy points out that Simmons’ statements underline the reason why they’re attacking him, saying his viewpoint matches that of infamous UK legal firm ACS:Law, who attempt to make money by threatening people with court action for illegal downloading despite having very little evidence which would stand up to analysis.

One member of the outfit says: “If they could find us we wouldn’t be able to get away with it so often. Mr Simmons is wrong – and you can tell by the way he talks about the internet in his recent speech that he doesn’t really know how any of it works.

“Mr Simmons also appears to believe that all filesharing is illegal, which is also wrong. We’re not surprised he’s resorted to bullying threats, but it won’t work. Mr Simmons represents an old world view – many more important people than him have tried and failed to silence the voice of the people.”

Thanks for the report to RockRadio.

Who Princess

81 wrote:

Back when i was in school, the internet was just getting started.

When I was in school, we still used stone tablets and chisels.

smg97791

I went to college from 1997 to 2002. It was the golden age of the internet, I could download whenever and whatever I wanted. It was great.

Get_Right

whoprincess wrote:

81 wrote:

Back when i was in school, the internet was just getting started.

When I was in school, we still used stone tablets and chisels.

we had computers in high school, but they were HUGE, like the size of a honda civic
the ones in college were the size of a 1980s 32 tv set and ran on DOS

dimitrispearljam

Get_Right wrote:

whoprincess wrote:

81 wrote:

Back when i was in school, the internet was just getting started.

When I was in school, we still used stone tablets and chisels.

we had computers in high school, but they were HUGE, like the size of a honda civic
the ones in college were the size of a 1980s 32 tv set and ran on DOS

FenwayFaithful

I miss college. Life is so difficult now. I long for the days where my life centered around class, afternoon beers watching Cops, playing stickball, going to house parties and hitting on girlies.

Get_Right

dimitrispearljam wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

we had computers in high school, but they were HUGE, like the size of a honda civic
the ones in college were the size of a 1980s 32 tv set and ran on DOS

Yeah its funny now, but it wasn't funny learning Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS!

dcfaithful

FenwayFaithful wrote:

I miss college. Life is so difficult now. I long for the days where my life centered around class, afternoon beers watching Cops, playing stickball, going to house parties and hitting on girlies.

By girlies do you mean 3 foot bongs??

rhcpjam1029

i go to syracuse and they are SERIOUS about not downloading anything illegally or through torrent. i've download a few bootlegs off of friendly sites, like pearljambootlegs.com, but if they catch you using limewire or a torrent site, then they give you the boot.

Get_Right

rhcpjam1029 wrote:

i go to syracuse and they are SERIOUS about not downloading anything illegally or through torrent. i've download a few bootlegs off of friendly sites, like pearljambootlegs.com, but if they catch you using limewire or a torrent site, then they give you the boot.

Delplain? Day? Shaw?

FenwayFaithful

dcfaithful wrote:

FenwayFaithful wrote:

I miss college. Life is so difficult now. I long for the days where my life centered around class, afternoon beers watching Cops, playing stickball, going to house parties and hitting on girlies.

By girlies do you mean 3 foot bongs??

Yeah, that too. That was a big part of college for me.

But seriously, I really miss all the college girls.

Pap

Get_Right wrote:

whoprincess wrote:

81 wrote:

Back when i was in school, the internet was just getting started.

When I was in school, we still used stone tablets and chisels.

we had computers in high school, but they were HUGE, like the size of a honda civic
the ones in college were the size of a 1980s 32 tv set and ran on DOS

Wow!... You guys are like computer science legends!... I have to admit that I'm a little bit jealous of your times. Despite the lack of today's high technology, they were much more simple and romantic years.

Gary Carter

Get_Right wrote:

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

why would you need to do that when you can pick up girls at will

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

why would you need to do that when you can pick up girls at will

cause there are things some girls just wont do. and the ones that will dont want to know you.

Gary Carter

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

why would you need to do that when you can pick up girls at will

cause there are things some girls just wont do. and the ones that will dont want to know you.

anal?

:P

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

catefrances wrote:

cause there are things some girls just wont do. and the ones that will dont want to know you.

anal?

:P

you giving or receiving?

Gary Carter

just giving thank you very much

markymark550

dcfaithful wrote:

I never knew that. Why is (was) downloading prohibited? I imagine you're using your own machines only on their connection, right?

I believe the college can be held liable for copyright infringement claims as well as the student. While that's the main reason colleges don't want kids downloading pirated files, it also hogs the network's bandwidth and there's always reason to be skeptical of pirated files having a virus/worm and wreaking havoc in their network.

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

just giving thank you very much

now now dont be like that... theres no judging here.

Pap

markymark550 wrote:

dcfaithful wrote:

I never knew that. Why is (was) downloading prohibited? I imagine you're using your own machines only on their connection, right?

I believe the college can be held liable for copyright infringement claims as well as the student. While that's the main reason colleges don't want kids downloading pirated files, it also hogs the network's bandwidth and there's always reason to be skeptical of pirated files having a virus/worm and wreaking havoc in their network.

:thumbup:

Get_Right

metsfan wrote:

Get_Right wrote:

can you visit "adult" websites, or is content restricted as well?

why would you need to do that when you can pick up girls at will

because its there-and lets face it, you need something to do while you are nursing that hangover with a wake an bake while eating a pizza in the morning

dimitrispearljam

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

catefrances wrote:

cause there are things some girls just wont do. and the ones that will dont want to know you.

anal?

:P

you giving or receiving?

Greek way is popular as i see..

chadwick

dimitrispearljam wrote:

Greek way is popular as i see..

and how does one incorporate gyros with anus sex?